The Stock Story of the Coming Week: RIM Revisionism

By Marek Fuchs:Late last week, traders were lost in the semi-coherent thought that Research in Motion (RIMM) would outrun its business demons. They took management gestures as articles of faith, deployed selective analysis and magical thought in hoping for a Hail Mary takeover and chased the stock markedly higher. A major story of this week will be traders returning to the field of reason on RIM, taking it back down.The bitter facts on RIM could fill volumes. The technology industry moves fast and RIM's management, notoriously overconfident, drove it into a ditch. Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) helped it along and weren't quite there with a tow chain. RIM's new management is either new and wholly unproven (see: Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins) or fired, leaving gaping holes where the steady hands of top officials should be. In other words, RIM has a long way to go just in terms ofComplete Story »

ByTufenk:Last week we witnessed Research In Motion's (RIMM) shares increase from $11.85 to $14.04 on Friday. This came on top of unusually high trading volume. It appears that there is an accumulation of the stock in progress. Could there be a deal in the works to buy RIMM? The apparent accumulation of shares could be indicative of a takeover, an event for which the company seems to be positioning itself.

By Trefis:
Research in Motion (RIMM) finally saw good news flow in the last week, giving its battered stock some much-needed respite. The company CEO, Thorsten Heins, confirmed in a press release last week that the new BlackBerry 10 platform has entered the ‘Lab Entry’ testing phase with more than 50 carriers across the world.

By Tedra DeSue:As the struggling BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) prepares to release its earnings for the second quarter tomorrow, investors are also looking to make some money from the company's woes in the options market.

By Robert Rubin:A friend of mine recently said that he hopes he is never in charge of a company where the stock trades up after his departure. How about if the stock trades down 8.4%, upon your being promoted to CEO, after the guys in charge before you did such a horrendous job that the market had been clamoring for their departure for years (the founders, no less)? Welcome to the executive boardroom, as President and CEO of Research In Motion Ltd.